Motorola DROID Bionic Official Specs Show Up, Then Vanish

After news of Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha’s confirmation of a September release date for the Motorola DROID Bionic, we also now have official confirmation (sort of) of the Motorola DROID Bionic’s final specs. And, depending on how you look at it, the specs may or may not make the DROID Bionic a device worth holding out for after nearly 8 months of waiting.

The spec details were posted just recently on the Motorola Developer Network site. At the time I started writing this story, the spec details were still available, but for some mysterious reason, they have been pulled off from the Motorola site.

One of the observations that sprung up when I first saw the list of specs was that the DROID Bionic seems to be similarly spec’d to the Motorola DROID 3, but minus the physical keyboard, twice the RAM, and half the DROID 3′s maximum camera zoom factor. The Motorola DROID 3 only has 512 MB of RAM, while the DROID Bionic has 1 GB. As for camera zoom, the DROID 3 seems to be more capable with 8x zooming compared to the DROID Bionic’s 4x zooming. The DROID 3 also has a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, which the DROID Bionic doesn’t.

Previous rumors pegged the DROID Bionic’s front-facing camera to be 2-megapixel strong, but it seems that those were just plain rumors. The newly posted spec sheet shows a VGA-quality, 0.3-megapixel secondary camera on the DROID Bionic.

The DROID 3 also seems to support more and recent multimedia formats (Android core media formats, H.264, MPEG-4, WMA 10, and WMV 9). The DROID Bionic’s spec sheet says it only supports Android core media formats, WMA 9, and WMV 9.

According to the spec sheet, the Motorola DROID Bionic will be carrying a Texas Instruments OMAP4430-1000 processor with clock speed of 1.0 GHz. The same processor spec exists on the Motorola DROID 3.

The DROID Bionic’s screen size is 4.3 inches, with a qHD (960×450) display resolution. The DROID 3 and Photon 4G have the same display resolution, but we figure that the DROID 3 will have a better display at that same resolution because of its smaller screen size (4 inches).

Although the item has disappeared from the Motorola Developer Network site, we were able get a screenshot:

leaked-official-specs-of-motorola-droid-bionic

Source: http://developer.motorola.com/products/compare/?items=18644,18753

The Motorola Developer Network site listed the DROID Bionic’s model number as XT865, which some developers noted to be the old DROID Bionic model number. The rumored “newer” model number of the post-CES, allegedly much improved reincarnation of the Motorola DROID Bionic announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 is XT875, which had been floating around the Web under the codename “Targa.” The spec for the front-facing camera (0.3 MP, VGA), along with the model number, have led some developers to wonder whether the newly posted specs were up to date.

The question that is bugging me right now is this: why post those specs and then remove them after a few hours?

The wait is over: Motorola sending out Droid Bionic Jelly Bean soak test invites

by Brad Ward, 1 month ago

Droid Bionic owners will be happy to hear that Motorola is sending out invites to members in the Motorola Feedback Network to participate in the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean soak test. Here’s the e-mail Droid-Life…

Comments

Carl

No ics for ATRIX. 2. Motorola lier lier
Major_Pita

How difficult is to get the correct image of the Motorola Bionic? Why do so many sites insist on using the dated, obsolete image of the Bionic that was shown at CES, then completely redesigned by the time it was released in September of 2011?
- corymcnutt
  
  I agree, why is this image still floating around ANYWHERE? There never was a phone that looked like this…our Bionics are much “prettier” that this image, ha!
Jhelum

atrix 4g…..further plans?? …VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!
Sailor105

absolutely right about closing comment-why waste time on ICS when JB seems to be everywhere except on MOTO. Google promised it for the Xoom wifi “in a few weeks” back in I/O and still nothing seen. Same with lack of JB in new Razr HD products? Too easily explained by fact that MOTO had to be taken over to save it from itself-great hardware, no software. Google seems to be doing little if anything to straighten it out, even at this date well into its assuming control.

Unless Google is just going to write it off and save its patents for the Apple war, they have to clean it up soon or it will write itself off into oblivion. People are getting really fed up with constant disappointment and unreliability.
- corymcnutt
  
  JB is “everywhere” but on Moto? What phones have been OFFICALLY upgraded to JB? Not many.
Motofan

This post is a little winey for my taste. When I purchased the bionic I had no other expectations except to have a good quality device, and that is what I got. I have an iPhone 4s provided by my employer and am not impressed. I know people who carry the Samsung galaxy s III and again, not impressed. Thank you Soni for providing a solid product and for having the integrity to own up on the upgrade delay. I am a Moto fan for life.
PhoneCard Mike

I have ICS on my Galaxy Tab 2 and it is OK. I would like to get it for my Bionic, but overall, I like the Bionic. It is just strange, I thought Google owned Motorola.
C.E. Barnes

Motorola needs to offer some type of rebate or something. Android 4 (ICS) came out last October. How can it take a year to update a phone to the version of Android that was available when the Atrix 2 was released? iPhone has gone through to iOS upgrades in the last year. Never buying a Motorola product ever again.
butnpushr

I got my bionic ics update yesterday